Dog Friends in Monza Park

Today "Simply Dog" (Leif) and I went for a walk in Monza Park. This is my dog's favorite park.
The park is huge and one of the largest and most beautiful north of Milan city. In this park you will see just about every dog breed in the book. Today Leif was visited by a very pretty female German Short-Haired Pointer. He fell in love with her instantly. And, of course we do not know her name, as her owner was not accompanying her. The two dogs played and played. Lovely. The female was quite agile and fast; she would run around Leif, jump inot the air, swirl, and then gallop, or rather, fly off into the distance. Then to return again to tease Leif. Her tail was quite cute; it was white at the end. Her owner was calling and calling her with a whistle, but she acted like she heard nothing. She did not seem to care and continued flirting with Leif. The two new friend just continued playing. Finally she ran off into the distance again and never returned, her owner still blowing the whistle. I could not understand why her owner did not personally come to get the dog. Leif was quite sad when she left. However, he met numerous other dogs in the park today and it resulted in a very good day of canine socializing !

Copyright (c) 2007 Karin Fester Scala

Working to publish the blog.....

Here is the mother of "Simply Dog" working on her laptop computer preparing the text and the photographs to be published on the Simply Dog Blog. Yes, this is me, here in my studio. "Simply Dog" is, of course, not here. He is out sunning himself on the balcony as I work. The sun is very warm today and a light wind is blowing.....but the wind will pick up as the big strom arrives in a few hours....gotta go

copyright (c) 2007 Karin Fester Scala

Leif and Sandy

Leif and Sandy. Here they are today saying hello to each other. These are dog friends. A friendship that is cherished between two dogs. Wonderful. It is so interesting to watch them as they greet each other and communicate in a language unfamiliar to me. All I know is that they are always so happy to see each other. Taking my dog for his walks each day is what brings much joy to my daily routine. We both need our daily exercise. Today we walked in the countryside. The weather was unusual today as we are awaiting a very strong wind storm from northern Europe. The media was showing a very harsh strong storm with hurricane force winds slamming into Wales, England, France, Holland and Germany. Today this storm is expected to move west. Here in north Italy, north of Milan where we live, they have predicted 80 -120 km/hours winds. Now, in this moment as I write it is very warm, like 20 degrees C. and a little windy and very very sunny. But it will change. The wind is already getting a little bit stronger. I am hoping it will only be the northwest part of Italy that will feel it. This fierce storm should, if it even comes our way, arrive late afternoon or early evening.

We will keep watching the weather. And, in the meantime Simply Dog and I will enjoy the sunny weather while it lasts.....and hopefully we will get a nice walk or two in before the big storm hits.

Ciao !

Copyright (c) 2007 Karin Fester Scala